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Earth

Earth is the cradle of the human race. Mankind has since seeded civilizations on dozens of worlds. Earth has reached a near idyllic perfection during the last 5 centuries. Though it has been shaped a lot by what happened in the centuries before.  

Ancient Histories

  Earth had a very dark period in it's past, but, like most dark periods several great things came from. During the late 21st to 22nd centuries, climate change caused such extremes that water levels rose 3 metres, and a lot of farm land became too dry to grow crops.   The scarce resources lead to a lot of regional wars. Many countries that used to trade resources, such as crops, to other countries were barely able to sustain themselves. This caused the countries that used to buy those food scampering for ways to provide for their citizens. Often, these  

Always reason for hope

Through all the difficulties, some countries, and larger corporations striving to ensure that humans survived the global crisis and wars sent out ships to start new colonies in other systems. There were six expeditions going in different directions that had colonists and frozen embryos in cryogenic freezers.   Those colonies include Canopus

Geography

Geographic Upheaval

The climate change, rising tides, and nearly constant wars during the dark days took it's tole on the planet. Here is a list of events that caused the largest, and most notable changes to the planet, and it's inhabitants. The largest events are listed in the timeline below.

Tourism

A visitor to Earth today finds a thriving world trading largely on its history and undeniable claim to being humanity’s “most perfect” world. Humans flock there for tourism and research. Earth still holds claim to “the sun” and “the moon,” the seas and shores from which intrepid human explorers once set out in tiny vessels to travel into the great beyond.
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Old Earth Reckoning

... 2800 NER

The standard Gregorian calendar used until the 28th century.

  • 2061 OER

    5 /8 23:00

    San Fransisco sinks
    Disaster / Destruction

    North Korea attacks the United States with such force it triggers an earthquake that sinks San Fransisco.

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    Earth
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    Earth
  • 2072 OER

    2199 OER


    STL colony ships launched from Earth
    Population Migration / Travel

    Slower than light (STL) colony ships launched from Earth containing frozen people and embryos.

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  • 2083 OER


    Venice Italy abandoned
    Geological / environmental event

    Rising sea levels due to climate change causes Venice to be evacuated.

  • 2102 OER


    Flooding of Florida
    Geological / environmental event

    Rising sea levels cover most of Florida.

  • 2106 OER


    Evacuation of the Dominican Republic
    Geological / environmental event

    The Dominican Republic is covered more and more by rising sea levels and evacuated.

  • 2249 OER

    2699 OER


    Human STL colonization of Orion Arm
    Population Migration / Travel

    The six colony ships arrived at their various homes during this time.

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  • 2271 OER

    2642 OER


    Colonization of Sol system
    Population Migration / Travel

    Starting with a research base on Mars, humans begin colonizing the Sol system.

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    Sol
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    Sol
  • 2414 OER


    Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
    Geological / environmental event

    Italy's Mount Vesuvius has it's largest eruption in over two millennia. It kills tens of thousands of people and buries Naples under lava.

  • 2479 OER

    2629 OER


    Planetary rebuild
    Construction beginning/end

    Mankind's first experiments with world government. Also mass rebuild of the planets ecology by restoring life to areas that were abandoned during the 21st and 22nd centuries.

  • 2799 OER


    Link-Up
    Technological achievement

    Canopans discover a way to keep people alive in hyperspace and link-up with other human planets.

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New Era Reckoning

2800 NER and beyond

Early in the 28th OER was the beginning of the great link-up. When Canopans discovered a way to travel through hyperspace safely. This brought in the New Era for humanity as the colonies that originated from earth were reunited.

  • 0 NER


    Link-Up
    Technological achievement

    Canopans discover a way to keep people alive in hyperspace and link-up with other human planets.

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  • 10 NER

    80 NER


    Coalition Wars
    Military action

    The backlash against that loss of supremacy was not difficult to predict, and it soon sparked the Coalition Wars. Technically a number of small, regional conflicts among worlds no more than 100 parsecs from Sol, which is roughly 326 light years. The Coalition Wars were the only significant interstellar civil conflict among humans.

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  • 100 NER


    FTL hyperdrive saturation of Known Worlds
    Population Migration / Travel

    Humans begin settling other worlds using FTL ships.

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